[beloch]

Colleges have admission and performance standards. Why not prison colleges? Select inmates motivated to learn and send them to a separate facility. If they don't take advantage of the opportunity or become a problem, send them back.

Peers matter. If you stick a dumb kid who screwed up in a prison full of hardened career criminals, you're likely going to get a career criminal. Surround him with other dumb kids trying to figure out how to recover from their mistakes and something different can happen. A separate prison college serves this purpose well too.

[epicureanideal]

Maybe YC can fund a "better prisons" startup?

I'd be happy to be involved in such a project.

[throwaway2048]

id prefer to keep profit motives well away from things like the prison system.

[majos]

Unfortunately, that cat's been out of the bag for decades.

[LeanderK]

Is YC only funding for-profit startups?

[DoreenMichele]

No.